da2x/double-escape.py

Created Jul 13, 2017

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Extracting the text node of an XML element containing a double-escaped entety.

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double-escape.py

      
        >>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ETree
      
        >>> ETree.fromstring("<test>&amp;rdquo;</test>").text
      
        '&rdquo;'

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da2x commented Jul 13, 2017

>>> import html
>>> html.unescape("&rdquo;")
'”'

Most feed reader implementations won’t know to do that extra step at the end. Named HTML-entities are quite rare in XML, especially double escaped ones.

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